Courtney Tucker — #2

At my church, we just did local mission work for the community. We called it Impact Weekend. There is a lady in Lake City who just recently discovered that she has cancer. She has four kids, and their ages range from newborn to eight years old, I believe. Her husband has been out of the city getting different jobs and paying the bills and such. Their yard work had been falling behind, but the Refuge 242 Youth Group came to the rescue and made this families yard look very nice. I don’t know if we’re professional enough to give us an actual business name, but I see Refuge Lawn Care in the making. This was on Thursday. I only was burnt on my neck and arms so, go me! The next day, we went to a nursing home. We had goodie bags that consisted of Kleenexs and a bible verse on a note card. The Kleenexs weren’t our idea. We called the nursing home and they said all of the residents loved Kleenexs.  I think they like them so much because the people can use them a lot. When we have out the goodie bags, you could really tell that everyone who received one was very thankful for the bible verses inside. The people at the nursing home really loved that we were there. We met this one lady there, who I’m not going to name, and she showed us all of her treasures that she had collected from all around the world. One thing I was particularly interested in was a wooden flute from Europe. I’m not sure where in Europe. She didn’t specify. Seeing all of the amazing items the lady had collected was very cool, but the best part about going to the nursing home was that, as a youth group, we got to sing to the residents. We sung about five or six Christian songs to the people who lived in the nursing home in the lobby. The song that had the biggest tug on my heart while singing was Good, Good Father by Chris Tomlin. Seeing all of the smiles and knowing that we are all making a difference really had an impact on me. No pun intended. It was such an amazing day at the nursing home. All in all though, Impact Weekend was a great experience and I hope my church does more local mission trips such as this one.